October 1910

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The following events occurred in October 1910:

October 1, 1910: Terrorist bombing of the Los Angeles Times kills 21 people

October 1, 1910 (Saturday)

October 2, 1910 (Sunday)

  • The asteroid Interamnia, seventh largest in the Solar System (300 kilometers in diameter) was discovered by Italian astronomer Vincenzo Cerulli from an observatory in Teramo.[4]

October 3, 1910 (Monday)

  • The Tsucheng-yuan, also known as the Imperial Senate of China, was convened for the first time, with an opening presided over by the regent, Prince Chun. The national assembly had 202 members, of whom 100 were elected by provincial assemblies, and the others were appointed by the regent.[2][5]
  • Died:
    • Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 77, first American woman dentist to have received a D.D.S.
    • "Johann F.", 59, a patient of Dr. Alois Alzheimer at the University of Munich. The case of dementia in Johann F. was described by Dr. Alzheimer in 1911, and the name given to the illness was popularized.[6] Another source describes Auguste Deter, who died in 1906, as the original patient of Dr. Alzheimer.[7]
    • Dr. Miguel Bombarda, 59, Portuguese psychiatrist, politician and anti-monarchist, was shot and killed by one of his patients two days before his co-conspirators launched the revolution that ended Portugal's monarchy.

October 4, 1910 (Tuesday)

  • King Manuel II of Portugal and the Queen Mother were forced to flee Lisbon, after the Army and Navy joined in a coup by the Republican movement and began shelling the royal palace.[2][8]
  • Thirty-seven people were killed and 30 injured near Staunton, Illinois, in a collision between two interurban trolleys.[9]

October 5, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • Teófilo Braga was named as the first President of Portugal by revolutionists who abolished the monarchy.[2]
  • Russia's Prime Minister, Pyotr Stolypin, flew as a passenger in an airplane at St. Petersburg.[10] Six days later, former American President Theodore Roosevelt would fly as an airplane passenger in St. Louis.
  • Plan de San Luis Potosí, calling for revolution against the Diaz government. Charles H. Harris and Louis R. Sadler,[11]

October 6, 1910 (Thursday)

October 7, 1910 (Friday)

October 8, 1910 (Saturday)

The Dietz Family of Wisconsin
  • The "Battle of Cameron Dam" came to an end, with frontiersman
    John F. Deitz (sometimes spelled "Dietz") surrendering to a force of 60 sheriff's deputies in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, after a one-week standoff. For six years, Deitz had maintained a log dam on the Thornapple River and claimed it as his own. By the time the standoff ended, Deitz was popularly known as either a dangerous outlaw or a national hero.[17]
  • Portugal began the next phase of its republican revolution, with a decree expelling members of the clergy, particularly those of the Jesuit faith.[18]
  • Born:
    Cherry Township, Minnesota
    . (d.2000)
  • Died: Maria Konopnicka, 58, Austro-Hungarian poet and writer

October 9, 1910 (Sunday)

Batting averages: Ty Cobb (.384944) against Nap Lajoie (.384084)
  • Cleveland Naps (227 out of 591). Cobb was allowed to sit out the last two games of the season, while Lajoie got eight hits in the final game. Sixty-eight years later, baseball historian Pete Palmer discovered a miscalculation in statistics and found that Cobb had actually finished with a .383 average. Major League Baseball declined, in 1981, to revise the 1910 records.[21]

October 10, 1910 (Monday)

October 11, 1910 (Tuesday)

October 12, 1910 (Wednesday)

October 13, 1910 (Thursday)

  • The Interstate Commerce Commission issued the first regulations requiring ladders, sill steps and hand brakes on all railroad cars in the United States.[25]
  • In fiction (Stephen King's short story "1408"), October 13, 1910, was the date that Kevin O'Malley leaped to his death from Room 1408 of the New York's Hotel Dolphin, becoming the first of 42 fatalities associated with the haunted room.[26]
  • Born:
    British India
    (d. 1997)

October 14, 1910 (Friday)

October 15, 1910 (Saturday)

October 16, 1910 (Sunday)

  • Great Britain set a three-month deadline for Persia to stop the raiding of commercial vehicles on the roads connecting
    Bushihr, Shiraz, and Isfahan, after which it would send an occupation force of 1,200 men to troops. The ultimatum was protested worldwide, but the Majlis eventually voted to set up a force to protect the roads.[40]

October 17, 1910 (Monday)

October 18, 1910 (Tuesday)

  • The inhabitants of Ponape, one of the Caroline Islands under the colonial administration of Germany, revolted after a German overseer had struck a roadworker with a whip, then killed Governor Gustav Boeder and other colonial officials. A month later, the Germans put down the rebellion and then deported the remaining 250 inhabitants to the island of Angaur, and repopulated Ponape from other islands.[43]
  • The British liner Trent rescued the crew of the dirigible America three days after its departure from Atlantic City. The America had been equipped with a wireless radio and made the first distress call ever sent from the air.[44]
  • Eleftherios Venizelos became the new Prime Minister of Greece, at the request of King George.[45]
  • The novel
    E.M. Forster
    , was first published.
  • The towns of Ranson, West Virginia, and Marcus, Washington, were both incorporated.
  • Died: Willard S. Whitmore, 68, American inventor of electrotyping matrix process

October 19, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • A hurricane swept across Cuba and the United States.[2] Although it caused no fatalities on land, the storm sank the steamer Crown Prince, with 35 on board.[46]
  • Born:
    British India
    (now Pakistan) (d. 1995)
  • Died:
    Elisabeth of Bavaria
    in 1898, committed suicide in prison

October 20, 1910 (Thursday)

  • RMS Olympic, the largest ocean liner up to that time, was launched at Belfast. It would be put into service by the White Star Line in 1911, and carry passengers until 1935.[47]
  • Died:
    • David B. Hill, 67, former U.S. Senator and Governor of New York
    • General Thomas T. Eckert, 85, Chairman of the Western Union Telegraph Company.

October 21, 1910 (Friday)

October 22, 1910 (Saturday)

October 23, 1910 (Sunday)

Jack Coombs, World Series hero
  • The Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Chicago Cubs, 7–2, to win the 1910 World Series in Game 5. Jack Coombs had been the winning pitcher in three of the Athletics' four wins.[54]
  • By a margin of 262,066 to 238,928, voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to have proportional representation in the national parliament.[55]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    King of Siam since 1868. Under the royal name of King Rama V, Chulalongkorn abolished slavery in the Southeast Asian kingdom later known as Thailand. He was succeeded by his son, Vajiravudh, who became Rama VI.[56] October 23 continues to be observed in Thailand as a national holiday (Piyamaharaj Day or Chulalongkorn Day).[57][58]

October 24, 1910 (Monday)

October 25, 1910 (Tuesday)

October 26, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • In Russellville, Arkansas, the first classes were held at Arkansas Tech University, known at the time as the "Second District Agriculture School".[62]
  • The
    Rockefeller University Hospital admitted its first research participant, opening up a new era of biomedical investigation in which physicians were given the resources and encouragement to engage in fundamental studies in the hospital laboratories on the disease problems they dealt with on the wards of the hospital.[63]

October 27, 1910 (Thursday)

  • KONE Corporation, the world's fourth-largest manufacturer of elevators, was founded in Finland.[64]
  • Born: Fred de Cordova, American television director most famous for The Tonight Show, in New York City (d.2001)

October 28, 1910 (Friday)

  • The first public demonstration of color movies, in the United States, took place at the meeting room of the New York Electrical Society. Charles Urban and George Smith had previously demonstrated their Kinemacolor process in London, and began their presentation with a film of "a series of bowls and vases of flowers, the bouquets being revolved so as to be seen on all sides".[65]
  • Salvador Calvero was named as the new Prime Minister of Peru to succeed Germán Schreiber Waddington.[53]

October 29, 1910 (Saturday)

  • Claude Grahame-White won the Gordon Bennett Cup for air racing after flying 100 kilometers (62 mi) in 61 minutes, 4.74 seconds, at a sustained speed of more than a mile a minute. French aviator Alfred Leblanc had been leading the race with a faster time over 19 of the 20 laps, before a fuel line failure caused his plane to crash.[66]

October 30, 1910 (Sunday)

October 31, 1910 (Monday)

References

  1. ^ "Fire Kills 19; Unions Accused; Two Bombs Found After Explosion Wrecks Los Angeles Times Building", New York Times, October 2, 1910, p1; L.A. Almanac
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Record of Current Events", The American Monthly Review of Reviews (November 1910), pp544–547
  3. ^ "Aeroplanes in Collision", New York Times, October 2, 1910, p11; International Civil Aviation Organization
  4. ^ "Interamnia". bgsu.edu. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Republican Government in China" by Chester Lloyd Jones, in China Social and Economic Conditions (American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1912) p35
  6. ^ Howard Feldman, Atlas of Alzheimer's Disease (CRC Press, 2007) p13
  7. ^ Sean Page and Tracey Fletcher, "Auguste D, One hundred years on: 'The person' not 'the case'", Dementia journal (November 2006) 571–583
  8. ^ "Uprising in Lisbon; King Held Prisoner", Washington Post, October 5, 1910, p1
  9. ^ "Trainman Held For Wreck", New York Times, October 6, 1910, p6
  10. ^ "Premier in an Aeroplane", New York Times, October 6, 1910, p1
  11. ^ The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920 (University of New Mexico Press, 2004) p52
  12. ^ "Manuel II Under the British Flag", Washington Post, October 7, 1910, p1
  13. ^ rjk. "World's first player to hit for the cycle. Curry Foley". thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  14. ^ "Lake of the Woods Historical Society". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
  15. ^ "Many Die In Flame; Hundreds Are Missing and Four Minnesota Towns in Ashes", Washington Post, October 9, 1910, p1
  16. ^ "Over 300 Die in Forest Fires", New York Times, October 10, 1910, p1
  17. ^ "Dietz Surrenders; He and Son Wounded", New York Times, October 9, 1910, p1; Wisconsin Historical Society; "1924: Wisconsin King", New York Times, May 10, 1999
  18. ^ Bertrand M. Roehner and Tony Syme, Pattern and Repertoire in History (Harvard University Press, 2002) p80
  19. ^ "Rescuers in Peril; Overcome by Gas While Seeking 52 Entombed Miners", Washington Post, October 10, 1910, p1
  20. ^ Edgar Cayce and A. Robert Smith, My life as a seer: the lost memoirs (St. Martin's Press, 1999) p18; "Illiterate Man Becomes a Doctor When Hypnotized", New York Times Magazine, October 9, 1910
  21. ^ David L. Porter, Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball (Greenwood Press, 2000) p842; "Cobb is Champion Batsman of World", New York Times, October 16, 1910, p C-7
  22. ^ "Time's Diary", Every Where Magazine (November 1910), p175
  23. ^ "Roosevelt in Aero", Washington Post, October 12, 1910, p1; Smithsonian/Air & Space magazine, November 6, 2008
  24. ^ H. H. Chang, Chiang Kai Shek – Asia's Man of Destiny (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944) pp88–89
  25. ^ p11 "The Federal Railroad Safety Program" Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine by Charles W. McDonald (U.S. Department of Transportation), p10
  26. ^ "1408", by Stephen King, in Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (Simon & Schuster, 2007) p475
  27. ^ "Remarkable Flight by the English Aviator", The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York), October 15, 1910, p1
  28. ^ "Steamer Rammed; 23 Drown", Indianapolis Star, October 15, 1910, p1
  29. ^ "Wellman Off For Europe in His Airship America, in a History-Making Voyage Under Auspices of the Times", New York Times, October 16, 1910, p1
  30. ^ University of Illinois Libraries; Richard Whittingham, Rites of Autumn: The Story of College Football (Simon & Schuster, 2001) p129
  31. ^ Keith E. Durso, Thy Will Be Done: A Biography of George W. Truett (Mercer University Press, 2009) p96
  32. ^ Stephen Linn, The Ultimate Tailgater's Big 12 Handbook (Globe Pequot Press, 2007) p79
  33. ^ Eugene H. Grubb and W.S. Guilford, The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912) p496
  34. ^ "The Japanese Navy Since the War with Russia", by Adachi Kinnosuke, The American Review of Reviews (July 1911) p85
  35. ^ "Episcopal Church Keeps Its Old Name", New York Times, October 16, 1910, p6
  36. ^ "Luco Elected in Chile", New York Times, October 16, 1910, pIII-4
  37. ^ "Airship Kills a Girl— Baillod Steers His Monoplane Into a Crowd at Limoges", New York Times, October 16, 1910
  38. ^ "Senator Dolliver, Insurgent, is Dead", The New York Times, October 16, 1910, p.1
  39. ^ "Stanley Ketchel Slain by Rancher", The New York Times, October 16, 1910, p. 1
  40. ^ W. Morgan Shuster, The Strangling of Persia (The Century Company, 1920)
  41. ^ "French Trains Running", New York Times, October 19, 1910, p11
  42. ^ "Trip Without Mishap", New York Times, October 17, 1910, p5
  43. ^ "Yap and Other Pacific Islands Under Japanese Mandate", by Junius B. Wood, National Geographic Magazine (December 1921), p599
  44. ^ "Wellman and Crew Rescued at Sea, Airship Lost"; "Chance Put Rescuer in Wellman's Path", New York Times, October 19, 1910, p1
  45. ^ Herbert Adams Gibbons. Venizelos (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920) p90
  46. ^ Tom Rubillo, A History of Hurricane Destruction in South Carolina: Hell and High Water (History Press, 2006) p143
  47. ^ Kit and Carolyn Bonner, Great Ship Disasters (MBI Publishing, 2003) p28; AtlanticLiners.com
  48. ^ Michael L. Hadley, et al., A Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) p54
  49. ^ Patrick Robertson, Film Facts (Billboard Books, 2001) p149
  50. ^ "Poe Gets a Place in Hall of Fame", New York Times, October 22, 1910, p1
  51. ^ "The Chinese Revolt: A Survey", by Adachi Kinnosuke, American Review of Reviews (December 1911) p718
  52. ^ Christopher H. Sterling, Military Communications: From Ancient Times to the 21st century (ABC-CLIO, 2008) p168
  53. ^ a b c d e f g "Record of Current Events", The American Monthly Review of Reviews (December 1910), pp672–675
  54. ^ "Athletics Win World Series", New York Times, October 24, 1910, p6
  55. ^ The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1911 (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912) p676
  56. ^ "Siamese King Dead; Was a Reformer", New York Times, October 24, 1910, p9
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  59. ^ "The Calendar of the Month", The World To-day (December 1910) p1433
  60. ^ "70 Killed on a Gunboat", New York Times, October 27, 1910, p7
  61. ^ "Jack Johnson Beaten", New York Times, October 26, 1910, p6
  62. ^ "History of Arkansas Polytechnic College", by G.R. Turrentine and John E. Tucker
  63. ^ The Rockefeller University Hospital Centennial
  64. ^ KONE – "100 years' history"
  65. ^ "Shows Moving Views in Natural Colors", New York Times, October 29, 1910, p8
  66. ^ "Grahame-White Wins the Cup", New York Times, October 30, 1910, p1
  67. ^ "Chronomedia: 1907". terramedia.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  68. ^ "Briand Explains His Hasty Words", New York Times, October 31, 1910, p3
  69. ^ "Looking back: The Shiraz pogrom"
  70. ^ "Descendants of Christopher Columbus"
  71. ^ "National Billiard League to Open". The New York Times. October 31, 1910. p. 7.
  72. ^ "Pittsburgh Wins the First Billiard Match". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. November 1, 1910. p. 10.